>In Greek mythology, Europa (/jʊəˈroʊpə, jə-/; Ancient Greek: Εὐρώπη, Eurṓpē, Attic Greek pronunciation: [eu̯.rɔ̌ː.pɛː]) was a Phoenician princess of Argive Greek origin, and the mother of King Minos of Crete. The continent of Europe is named after her. The story of her abduction by Zeus in the form of a bull was a Cretan story; as classicist Károly Kerényi points out, "most of the love-stories concerning Zeus originated from more ancient tales describing his marriages with goddesses. This can especially be said of the story of Europa."
>With fear and contempt for his wife's "son", but without the courage to kill him, the King Minos of Crete had a labyrinth built below his castle to trap the Minotaur. Years later, Minos defeated Athens in a war that cost him one of sons. Minos, as revenge, ordered that every year 7 Athenian girls and boys were sent to the labyrinth for the Minotaur to eat them
The most interesting detail is knowing that the people of Princess Europa, the Phoenicians, worshiped Moloch and colonized Crete, wow.
>"Some say that the Jews were fugitives from the island of Crete, who settled on the nearest coast of Africa about the time when Saturn was driven from his throne by the power of Jupiter. Evidence of this is sought in the name. There is a famous mountain in Crete called Ida; the neighboring tribe, the Idaei, came to be called Judaei by a barbarous lengthening of the national name. Others assert that in the reign of Isis the overflowing population of Egypt, led by Hierosolymus and Judas, discharged itself into the neighboring countries..." - Ancient Roman Historian Tacitus
>"...after Typhon was evicted from Egypt by Horus, he fled on the back of an ass into Syria where he fathered two sons "Hierosolymus and Judeus, Sons of Seth/Typhon (aka Aphosis and Ba'al)..." - Ancient Greek Historian Plutarch
>Sanchuniathon (/ˌsæŋkjʊˈnaJəθɒn/; Ancient Greek: Σαγχουνιάθων Sankhouniáthōn; probably from Phoenician: 𐤎𐤊𐤍𐤉𐤕𐤍, romanized: SKNYTN, Saḵūnyatān, "[the god] Sakon has given"), also known as Sanchoniatho the Berytian, is the Phoenician author of three lost works originally written in the Phoenician language and surviving only in partial paraphrase and summary of a Greek translation by Philo of Byblos, according to the Christian bishop Eusebius. These few fragments comprise the most extended literary source concerning Phoenician religion in either Greek or Latin: Phoenician sources, along with all of Phoenician literature, were lost with the parchment on which they were written
>An account ascribed by the historian Eusebius to the semi-legendary pre-Trojan War Phoenician historian, Sanchuniathon, indicates that Cronus was originally a Canaanite ruler who founded the city of Byblos and was subsequently deified. This report gives his alternate name as Elus or Ilus, and states that in the thirty-second year of his reign, he castrated, slew and deified his father Epigeius. Epigeius, the narrative claims, was thereafter known as Uranus. It further states that after ships were invented, Cronus, visiting the 'inhabitable world', bequeathed Attica to his own daughter, Athena, and Egypt to Thoth, the son of Misor
Sanchuniathon also said that Cronus (Saturn) was called by the honorific title of "Moloch". Pic related.
>In Greek mythology, Minos (/ˈmaJnɒs, -nəs/; Greek: Μίνως, Ancient: [mǐːnɔːs] Modern: [ˈminos]) was a King of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every nine years, he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus's creation, the labyrinth, to be eaten by the Minotaur. After his death, Minos became a judge of the dead in the underworld. The Minoan civilization of Crete was named after him by the archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans
>There was no iron fist required, Minoa was quite literally the craddle of economy in the Mediterranean, pretty much all of the terminology used today by hardline economist with ties to the various cargocults running this world specifically ties back to the cultural and religious worship as practiced on Minoa. The daughter of Minos was reverred as a deity throughout most of the Middle East, and even the Moloch schtick ties back to their Bull fetish
>Hell, King Minos is source of the fabled numbers 777 and 666 (they vary from source to source), they refer to the sacrifices of minor he demanded from Greece in a specific rythm (e.g.: 7 boys, 7 girls, 7 years) as a punishment for the son of his death
Wtf are you talking about nigger? This is a symbolic story about the first european civilization, the Minoans and they didn't worship Moloch or the minotaur which was just a monster
Asher Lewis
>Minoans seemed to have close relationships with the Egyptians and the Sumerians/Akkadians and engaged in trade with them all. Its very possible that the royal families of these bronze age Mediterranean cultures were all related, intermarrying over the centuries in various marriage alliances. Many of the Islands have remnants of a much older civilization, like Malta, Rhodes, Sardinia, with giant burials found, elongated skulls and the remains of a civilization with an extremely advanced understanding of stone working and acoustics
>If you want another rabbit hole that goes back even further, look into the origins of the Sumerians and the proto sumerian language. It seems to have originated from the Danube Delta area where proto sumerian tartarian tablets were found in what is now Romania along with human bones with signs of cannibalism, and this is well over 1,000 years or more before the rise of Bronze age civilizations. It seems like there may have been a major city of these blood drinking cannibals in Romania around 5600BC that was wiped out with the Black sea flood and displaced these people to move south to Sumer and perhaps migrate to the Islands as well
The city-state of Athens (of the goddess Athena, symbolized by an Owl), sent minors to be devoured by the Minotaur of the Minoan Civilization (symbolized by an Bull). Doesn't that remind you of something? When you realize you will shit bricks.
>Bohemian Grove is a restricted 2,700-acre (1,100 ha) campground at 20601 Bohemian Avenue, in Monte Rio, California, United States, belonging to a private San Francisco–based gentlemen's club known as the Bohemian Club. In mid-July each year, Bohemian Grove hosts a more than two-week encampment of some of the most prominent men in the world. Since 1899, it has only served the male members of the "Bohemian Club", who are recruited primarily from the United States' political, economic, artistic and media elite for a 14-day retreat
>The Seal of California depicts the Goddess Athena/Minerva. Her having been born fully-grown symbolizes California having become a state without first being a territory
>As one can plainly see by the above comparison, the owl statue, situated within the library at the Bohemian Club headquarters in San Francisco, is an exact replica of the one at the Acropolis – thus, there is no doubt that the “Bohos” (by duplicating a famous statue located at the chief temple dedicated to Athena) are alluding to Athena/Minerva, or the goddess of wisdom. Furthermore, the statue in the Bohemian Club has a plaque on its front base, stating: “Replica of Ancient Athenian Owl” (see the “Inside The Bohemian Club” video at approximately 07:24)
>Furthermore, the statue in the Bohemian Club has a plaque on its front base, stating: “Replica of Ancient Athenian Owl” (see the “Inside The Bohemian Club” video at approximately 07:24)
>Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, handicraft, and warfare who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. Athena was regarded as the patron and protectress of various cities across Greece, particularly the city of Athens, from which she most likely received her name. The Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens is dedicated to her. Her major symbols include owls, olive trees, snakes, and the Gorgoneion. In art, she is generally depicted wearing a helmet and holding a spear
>Athena was said to have competed against the mortal Arachne in a weaving competition, afterward transforming Arachne into the first spider; Ovid also describes how she transformed Medusa into a Gorgon after witnessing her being raped by Poseidon in her temple. Since the Renaissance, Athena has become an international symbol of wisdom, the arts, and classical learning. Western artists and allegorists have often used Athena as a symbol of freedom and democracy
>"Weaving Spiders Come Not Here," the motto on the seal of the Bohemian Club, may well be alluding to the myth; the mere fact that it is accompanied by the owl, which represents Minerva, is significant and noteworthy (and too semiotically sound as to have been a mere coincidence)
>"...after Typhon was evicted from Egypt by Horus, he fled on the back of an ass into Syria where he fathered two sons "Hierosolymus and Judeus, Sons of Seth/Typhon (aka Aphosis and Ba'al)..." - ancient greek historian Plutarch More connection:
>Typhon (/ˈtaJfɒn, -fən/; Ancient Greek: Τυφῶν, romanized: Typhôn, [tyːpʰɔ̂ːn]), also Typhoeus (/taJˈfiːəs/; Τυφωεύς, Typhōeús), Typhaon (Τυφάων, Typháōn) or Typhos (Τυφώς, Typhṓs), was a monstrous serpentine giant and one of the deadliest creatures in Greek mythology. Typhon was (from c. 500 BC) also identified with the Egyptian god of destruction Set. The Egyptian god Set-Typhon was sometimes depicted with a ass/donkey head and he has also been more explicitly associated with the Jewish god Yahweh
>Hyksos (/ˈhJksɒs/; Egyptian ḥqꜣ(w)-ḫꜣswt, Egyptological pronunciation: hekau khasut, "ruler(s) of foreign lands"; Ancient Greek: Ὑκσώς, Ὑξώς) is a term which, in modern Egyptology, designates the kings of the Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt (fl. c. 1650–1550 BC). In the Aegyptiaca, a history of Egypt written by the Greco-Egyptian priest and historian Manetho in the 3rd century BC, the term Hyksos is used ethnically to designate people of probable West Semitic, Levantine origin. Ancient Jewish Historian Josephus associated the Hyksos with the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. Many modern scholars believe the Hyksos may have partially inspired the Biblical account
>The Hyksos are known to have worshiped the Canaanite storm god Baal, who was associated with the Egyptian god Set. Set appears to have been the patron god of Avaris as early as the Fourteenth Dynasty. Hyksos iconography of their kings on some scarabs shows a mixture of Egyptian pharaonic dress with a raised club, the iconography of Baal. Many later sources claiming the Hyksos were opposed to the worship of other gods
>The Typhonian tradition is sometimes defined as a current that flows through the cosmology of the Order Templi Orientis (O. T. O.) established and made famous by Aleister Crowley. Typhon was the god in Greek mythology who when appearing before the other gods was so ugly he changed into a fire-eating monster; he waged a terrible war and was eventually killed by one of Zeus' thunderbolts. Thus, Typhonian is synonymous with fire and force, also means the Opposer. Typhon's Egyptian counterpart is Set or Seth. Excerpt from Bill Schoebelen: "Most Witches, myself included, find it necessary to study his material and “plug themselves into” the magical current of Crowley's demon spirit guide, a mysterious being named Aiwass. Aiwass is another name for Set, an Egyptian god. Sodomy is especially sacred to Set. It opens what are called the Typhonion” tunnels, channels through which extremely powerful demons, like the horrible Choronzon, can travel from the alternate reality and emerge into this universe and enter the sex partner's body. Sex (especially lustful and disconnected sex) is a major way in which demonic oppression can be passed from one person to another."
>According to Kenneth Grant, a leading exponent of this Typhonian Tradition,and head of the Ordo Templi Orientis (a magical organization that was once headed by the one and only Aleister Crowley) this tradition is part of a current of magical force and occult lore dating back to Sumeria and pre-Dynastic Egypt. ( See Sumerian-Egypt Invasion) Originally known as the Draconian Tradition (Orion Group) it is a magical current “based on initiated knowledge or gnosis of the Fire Snake.” The Fire Snake is also known as the Kundalini or the Ophidian Current; the basis of all true initiation
Aren't you confusing two stories in the OP? Wasn't minotaur the son of some girl who was cursed to fall in love with a bull gifted to Minos by Poseidon?
Thomas Jackson
>Who is Typhon? According to Mr. Grant, Typhon is “The feminine aspect of Set; sometimes typified as the Mother of Set in her role of Goddess of the Seven Stars, of which Set is the Eighth.” Set is the brother of Osiris in the Egyptian Pantheon. Set, Osiris’ dark brother, chopped Osiris up into many pieces, leaving him for dead. Set was also the prototype for Satan. Grant writes, “The word Set or Sut, means ‘black’. This indicates not only the generative nature of this god but also his association with the night-world, Amenta, for from being a god of the heavens Set fell beneath the horizon and was recognized in later mythologies as the Lord of Hell, the Hidden Land.This god (i.e. Set, Satanism) is of supreme importance in Crowley’s Cult, being not only the name of the primal creative spirit but also the formula of sexual magick.”
Funny that the word "Donkey" (the sacred animal of Set), in the Egyptian language, is IAO.
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ⲉⲱ >ⲓⲁⲱ (iaō) – Sahidic, Bohairic >From Demotic ꜥꜣ (“donkey”), from Egyptian (ꜥꜣ,“donkey”), possibly onomatopoeic in origin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton >The most commonly invoked god is Ιαω (Iaō), another vocalization of the tetragrammaton YHWH. There is a single instance of the heptagram ιαωουηε (iaōouēe)
>The 4Q120, a Greek fragment of Leviticus (26:2–16) discovered in the Dead Sea scrolls (Qumran) has ιαω ("Iao"), the Greek form of the Hebrew trigrammaton YHW. The historian John the Lydian (6th century) wrote: "The Roman Varo [116–27 BCE] defining him [that is the Jewish God] says that he is called Iao in the Chaldean mysteries" (De Mensibus IV 53). Van Cooten mentions that Iao is one of the "specifically Jewish designations for God" and "the Aramaic papyri from the Jews at Elephantine show that 'Iao' is an original Jewish term
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onolatry >Onolatry is the supposed worship of the donkey. In Imperial Rome, the charge of onolatry was used by the pagans to taunt the Jews and first Christians. The association of Jews with donkeys was a common feature of Hellenic as well as Latin ethnographic and historical writings, and included accusations of worshipping a golden donkey head and even sacrificing foreigners to it at intervals. A famous example of this is the Alexamenos graffito
>The charge was likely first used against Jews in Egypt, where donkeys were at some points associated with Set, the murderer of Osiris who is in turn destroyed by Isis
commonpaine.blogspot.com/2012/09/donkey-god.html >In ancient times, the Jews were accused of having a statue of a donkey in their temple. In some versions of the story, Moses was depicted riding the ass, in other versions it was just an ass by itself, or only the head of an ass. From whence did this accusation of onolatry (donkey worship) arise? Was it simply libel meant to discredit the Jews, or is there some truth to the claim?
>The best source we have of this claim is found in the writings of the Jewish-Roman historian Josephus. In his work, Against Apion, he replies to the ancient Greek-Egyptian scholar Apion who lived circa 20 BC to 50 AD. Unfortunately, none of Apion's writings have survived, so we must rely on the response from Josephus, written around 100 AD
>Apion hath the impudence to pretend that "the Jews placed an ass's head in their holy place;" and he affirms that this was discovered when Antiochus Epiphanes spoiled our temple, and found that ass's head there made of gold, and worth a great deal of money. To this my first answer shall be this, that had there been any such thing among us, an Egyptian ought by no means to have thrown it in our teeth, since an ass is not a more contemptible animal than furones [it's unknown which animal is refered to here] and goats, and other such creatures, which among them are gods [...] Apion ought to have had a regard to these facts, unless he had himself had either an ass's heart or a dog's impudence; of such a dog I mean as they worship; for he had no other external reason for the lies he tells of us. (Josephus, Against Apion II:7)
